The Great Canadian Skyline thread for CMAs 1 million and under - Page 135

FrAnKs · #**2681** Posted **Apr 12, 2014, 9:45 PM**

How is summer in Yellowknife ?

Chadillaccc · #**2682** Posted **Apr 12, 2014, 10:25 PM**

Average high of 9.7 in May, 18.1 in June, 21.3 in July, 18.1 in August, 10.4 in September.
Daily mean of 4.6 in May, 13.3 in June, 17 in July, 14.2 in August, 7.2 in September.

Daylight lasts for 20 hours during the summer. It has a dry subarctic climate (warmer than most subarctic), and is the sunniest city in the entire country during summer (summer only), averaging 1034 hours of sun between June and August.

davidivivid · #**2683** Posted **Apr 20, 2014, 9:35 PM**

http://gohelico.com/

SignalHillHiker · #**2684** Posted **Apr 20, 2014, 11:03 PM**

Yellowknife turns into residential even faster than we do.

SignalHillHiker · #**2685** Posted **Apr 20, 2014, 11:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Daylight lasts for 20 hours during the summer. It has a dry subarctic climate (warmer than most subarctic), and is the sunniest city in the entire country during summer (summer only), averaging 1034 hours of sun between June and August.

That's almost as much as we get all year.

Innsertnamehere · #**2686** Posted **Apr 21, 2014, 2:07 AM**

That helicopter is really badly shopped into that photo, I mean come on, they aren't even trying there.

advance62 · #**2687** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 3:58 AM**

The core of Kitchener's Skyline

April 23:

Sunset Skyline by Matt M S, on Flickr

Architype · #**2688** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 4:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Yellowknife turns into residential even faster than we do.

It's population is about the same as Paradise NL, or slightly larger than Grand Falls-Windsor. I suspect that the number of high rise apartments reflects a highly transient population.

MolsonExport · #**2689** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 1:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

http://traveltrade.spectacularnwt.co...other-packages

Nice, but looks more like a green and blue fork.

Chadillaccc · #**2690** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 1:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

It's population is about the same as Paradise NL, or slightly larger than Grand Falls-Windsor. I suspect that the number of high rise apartments reflects a highly transient population.

I don't think Yellowknife has much of a transient population. If it did, its population would fluctuate wildly during boom and bust cycles, which it doesn't really. All of the large mines are very far from the city and have their own camp accommodations for their workers. That said, I'm sure there is of course some transient population in Yellowknife, just not a significant portion of the population.

advance62 · #**2691** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 4:15 PM**

Another from last night:

Dusk Skyline by Matt M S, on Flickr

koops65 · #**2692** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 7:14 PM**

Nice to see multiple cranes in downtown Kitchener.

advance62 · #**2693** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 11:24 PM**

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Nice to see multiple cranes in downtown Kitchener.

Couldn't agree more! The tallest is City Centre 1, the shorter on the left is One Victoria and the far right is Barrel-yards, Waterloo

Dr Awesomesauce · #**2694** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 11:50 PM**

Some height coming to Kitchener would be great!

Chadillaccc · #**2695** Posted **Apr 26, 2014, 2:17 AM**

Great shots of Kitchener lately, Advance! Really!

Chadillaccc · #**2696** Posted **Apr 26, 2014, 2:23 AM**

Don't know if these shots of Victoria have been posted before, but here they are...

http://www.pbase.com/image/76359505

http://victoriadailyphoto.blogspot.c...1_archive.html

SignalHillHiker · #**2697** Posted **Apr 26, 2014, 2:51 AM**

First one is awesome. Same mountain in the background of some VC shots, right?

middeljohn · #**2698** Posted **Apr 26, 2014, 5:52 AM**

My God, that first shot of Victoria is amazing! In a lot of ways I think that Victoria is somewhat forgotten about in the ROC which is really sad. It really looks like a fantastic place to see. Hopefully I can get there in the next few months.

Chadillaccc · #**2699** Posted **Apr 26, 2014, 6:06 AM**

It certainly is underrated, and it is so rarely seen even here or in national media, and people generally know so little about it. It is a stunning city and has amazing history. The historic bones could compete with any others in Canada, with many buildings from the 1880s and 90s. In that respect, it's very unique among Western cities.

SignalHillHiker · #**2700** Posted **Apr 26, 2014, 12:42 PM**

Yeah, it definitely doesn't get enough attention.

Our St. John's SSP crowd hears about it more often than usual because Ayreonaut has spent a lot of time there and loves it. He's always pointing out little things we could change for the better based on examples from Victoria, so they're clearly doing things really well.

The one thing that confuses me about B.C.: they get lots of rain, but they have an outdoor, big clear skies, prairie culture. They don't have that foggy, indoor, food-and-drink-and-get-together culture you find in the Maritimes, Newfoundland, Ireland, the U.K., etc. and other famously wet and miserable places.